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Sport and Architecture

Sport and Architecture

Sport and architecture are two elements of contemporary life that have a broad and profound impact on the world around us. The role architecture plays in shaping buildings and societies has occupied historians for centuries. Likewise the cultural economic and political importance of sport is the subject of sustained academic inquiry. When sport and architecture converge as in the 2012 London Olympics or the 2014 World Cup in Brazil then the impact of these two forms of social activity is redoubled. This book presents a new and dynamic study of the complex relationship between sport and architecture. It explores the history of sport architecture and examines the buildings and events that create sites where sport and architecture converge in particularly telling ways. Its chapters discuss the following topics: sport architecture and urban redevelopment sport architecture and technology sport architecture and nationalism sport architecture as social activism sport architecture and global capitalism. By considering the importance of architectural form alongside these key themes this book represents a landmark study for anybody interested in the social and cultural significance of architecture or sport.

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The Architecture of Ethics

The Architecture of Ethics

Ethics is one of the most important and least understood aspects of design practice. In his latest book Thomas Fisher shows how ethics are inherent to the making of architecture – and how architecture offers an unusual and useful way of looking at ethics. The Architecture of Ethics helps students in architecture and other design disciplines to understand the major approaches to ethics and to apply them to the daily challenges they face in their work. The book covers each of the four dominant approaches to ethics: virtue ethics social contract ethics duty ethics and utilitarian ethics. Each chapter examines the dilemmas designers face from the perspective of one of these categories. Written in an accessible jargon-free style the text also features 100 illustrations to help integrate these concepts into the design process and to support visual understanding. Ethics is now a required part of accredited architecture programs making this book essential reading for all students in architecture and design.

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Sports Architecture

Sports Architecture

This book offers a rare chance to understand how sport and architecture come together to create an outstanding building type - a symbol of our times. Rod Sheard shares the experience and expertise of HOK LOBB in this beautifully illustrated book offering practical advice and guidance on commissioning designing and managing sports venues around the world. The award-winning work of this firm includes the Millennium Stadium Cardiff the Wembley National Stadium London and the Stadium Australia in Sydney commissioned for the Olympic Games 2000. | Sports Architecture

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Collage and Architecture

Collage and Architecture

Collage and Architecture remains an invaluable resource for students and practitioners as the first book to cover collage as a tool for analysis and design in architecture. Since entering the contemporary art world over a century ago collage has profoundly influenced artists and architects throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. In Collage and Architecture Jennifer A. E. Shields explores its influence using the artworks and built projects of leading artists and architects such as Mies van der Rohe Daniel Libeskind and Teddy Cruz to illustrate the diversity of collage techniques. This new edition includes: A stronger focus on contemporary practices including digital methods; New designers and architects including Marshall Brown WAI Architecture Think Tank and Tatiana Bilbao bringing their methods and work to life; An expanded global and diverse perspective of architecture as collage; Collage is an important instrument for analysis and design. Through its 261 color images this book shows how this versatile medium can be adapted and transformed in your own work.

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Film Architecture and Spatial Imagination

Film Architecture and Spatial Imagination

Films use architecture as visual shorthand to tell viewers everything they need to know about the characters in a short amount of time. Illustrated by a diverse range of films from different eras and cultures this book investigates the reciprocity between film and architecture. Using a phenomenological approach it describes how we the viewers can learn how to read architecture and design in film in order to see the many inherent messages. Architecture’s representational capacity contributes to the plausibility or 'reality' possible in film. The book provides an ontological understanding that clarifies and stabilizes the reciprocity of the actual world and a filmic world of illusion and human imagination thereby shedding light on both film and architecture. | Film Architecture and Spatial Imagination

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Landscape Architecture Criticism

Landscape Architecture Criticism

Landscape Architecture Criticism offers techniques perspectives and theories which relate to landscape architecture a field very different from the more well-known domains of art and architectural criticism. Throughout the book Bowring delves into questions such as how do we know if built or unbuilt works of landscape architecture are successful? What strategies are used to measure the success or failure and by whom? Does design criticism only come in written form? It brings together diverse perspectives on criticism in landscape architecture establishing a substantial point of reference for approaching design critique exploring how criticism developed within the discipline. Beginning with an introductory overview to set the framework the book then moves on to historical perspectives the purpose of critique theoretical positions ranging from aesthetics to politics and experience unbuilt projects techniques and communication. Written for professionals and academics as well as for students and instructors in landscape architecture it includes strategies diagrams matrices and full colour illustrations to prompt discussion and provide a basis for exploring design critique.

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Confabulations : Storytelling in Architecture

Confabulations : Storytelling in Architecture

Confabulation is a drawing together through storytelling. Fundamental to our perception memory and thought is the way we join fractured experiences to construct a narrative. Confabulations: Storytelling in Architecture weaves together poetic ideas objects and events and returns you to everyday experiences of life through juxtapositions with dreams fantasies and hypotheticals. It follows the intellectual and creative framework of architectural cosmopoesis developed and practiced by the distinguished thinker architect and professor Dr. Marco Frascari who thought deeply about the role of storytelling in architecture. Bringing together a collection of 24 essays from a diverse and respected group of scholars this book presents the convergence of architecture and storytelling across a broad temporal geographic and cultural range. Beginning with an introduction framing the topic the book is organized along a continuous thread structured around four key areas: architecture of stories stories of architecture stories of theory and practice of stories. Beautifully illustrated throughout and including a 64-page full colour section Confabulations is an insightful investigation into architectural narratives. | Confabulations : Storytelling in Architecture

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Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture

Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture

Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture presents a communicable and useful definition of organic architecture that reaches beyond constraints. The book focuses on the works and writings of architects in Nordic countries such as Sigurd Lewerentz Jørn Utzon Sverre Fehn and the Aaltos (Aino Elissa and Alvar) among others. It is structured around the ideas of organic design principles that influenced them and allowed their work to evolve from one building to another. Erik Champion argues organic architecture can be viewed as a concerted attempt to thematically unify the built environment through the allegorical expression of ongoing interaction between designer architectural brief and building-as-process. With over 140 black and white images this book is an intriguing read for architecture students and professionals alike.

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John Ruskin and the Fabric of Architecture

John Ruskin and the Fabric of Architecture

Through the theoretical lenses of dress studies gender science and visual studies this volume analyses the impact John Ruskin has had on architecture throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores Ruskin’s different ideologies such as the adorned wall veil which were instrumental in bringing focus to structures that were previously unconsidered. John Ruskin and the Fabric of Architecture examines the ways in which Ruskin perceives the evolution of architecture through the idea that architecture is surface. The creative act in architecture analogous to the divine act of creation was viewed as a form of dressing. By adding highly aesthetic features to designs taking inspiration from the 'veil' of women’s clothing Ruskin believed that buildings could be transformed into meaningful architecture. This volume discusses the importance of Ruskin’s surface theory and the myth of feminine architecture and additionally presents a competing theory of textile analogy in architecture based on morality and gender to counter Gottfried Semper’s historicist perspective. This book would be beneficial to students and academics of architectural history and theory gender studies and visual studies who wish to delve into Ruskin’s theories and to further understand his capacity for thinking beyond the historical methods. The book will also be of interest to architectural practitioners particularly Ruskin’s theory of surface architecture.

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Architecture and Labor

Architecture and Labor

Through a collection of 13 chapters Peggy Deamer examines the profession of architecture not as an abstraction but as an assemblage of architectural workers. What forces prevent architects from empowering ourselves to be more relevant and better rewarded? How can these forces be set aside by new narratives new organizations and new methods of production? How can we sit at the decision-making table to combat short-term real estate interests for longer-term social and ethical value? How can we pull architecture—its conceptualization its pedagogy and its enactment—into the 21st century without succumbing to its neoliberal paradigm? In addressing these controversial questions Architecture and Labor brings contemporary discourses on creative labor to architecture a discipline devoid of labor consciousness. This book addresses how not just what architects produce and focuses not on the past but on the present. It is sympathetic to the particularly intimate way that architects approach their design work while contextualizing that work historically institutionally economically and ideologically. Architecture and Labor is sure to be a compelling read for pre-professional students academics and practitioners.

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Neorealist Architecture Aesthetics of Dwelling in Postwar Italy

Neorealist Architecture Aesthetics of Dwelling in Postwar Italy

***Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize 2022 and selected at the FAD Awards 2023*** After World War II a wave of Italian films emerged that depicted the life and hardships of characters left helpless after the conflict bringing to the screen the struggles of a time of existential angst and uncertainty. This form of filmmaking was associated with a broader artistic phenomenon known as ‘neorealism’ and is now considered a pivotal point in the history of Italian cinema. But neorealism was not limited to film any more than it was to literature. It spread to other areas of artistic production including architecture. What was then neorealist architecture? This book explores the links between architecture filmmaking and the built environment in dopoguerra Italy (194X–195X) seeking to ascertain whether and how neorealism manifested itself in architecture. Terms such as ‘neorealist architecture’ or ‘architectural neorealism’ were hinted at in these years and recalled by historians of architecture in the following decades. Therefore the concept was adopted ad hoc and popularized post hoc in the absence of any declarations prior to 1955 that proclaimed what neorealism in architecture was or wanted to be. However while the concept has been internalized by Italian architectural history transfers between neorealism—as an aesthetic and ethic—and architecture—as one potential medium of its embodiment or expression—are still not fully understood. Therefore its main goal is to provide an in-depth discussion of the concept ‘neorealist architecture’ the working assumption being that the connection between both terms is not meaningless. The book is beautifully illustrated with over 100 black and white archival images and is the first book to be published on neorealism in architecture. It will appeal to scholars professionals and students interested in history and theory of architecture Italian studies art history and cultural studies. | Neorealist Architecture Aesthetics of Dwelling in Postwar Italy

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The Structural Basis of Architecture

The Structural Basis of Architecture

This is a book that shows how to see structures as being integral to architecture. It engages a subject that is both about understanding the mechanical aspects of structure as well as being able to relate this to the space form and conceptual design ideas that are inherent to the art of building. Analyzing the structural principles behind many of the best-known works of architecture from past and present alike this book places the subject within a contemporary context. The subject matter is approached in a qualitative and discursive manner illustrated by many photographs and structural behavior diagrams. Accessible mathematical equations and worked-out examples are also included so as to deepen a fundamental understanding of the topic. This new color edition’s format has been thoroughly revised and its content updated and expanded throughout. It is perfect as either an introductory structures course text or as a designer’s sourcebook for inspiration for here two essential questions are addressed in parallel fashion: “How do structures work?” and “What form do structures take in the context of architecture – and why so?” A rich varied and engaging rationale for structural form in architecture thus emerges. | The Structural Basis of Architecture

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Experiencing Art and Architecture Lessons on Looking

Experiencing Art and Architecture Lessons on Looking

In this multidisciplinary book Sanda Iliescu articulates a rich multi-faceted approach to the aesthetic experience. Through in-depth discussions of her own lived encounters with art architecture and the world around her she advocates a way of looking that blends sensory perception formal analysis social and political consciousness and personal memory. Focusing special attention on the aesthetic concept of the figure-ground problem the author challenges this foundational principle’s presumed hierarchies and shows how a new and more dynamic understanding of it can enhance our way of looking at and understanding art and architecture. Works discussed in the book include a wide range of contemporary and historic art and architecture among them artworks by Rembrandt Matisse Eva Hesse and David Hammons; architecture by Zaha Hadid Peter Zumthor and Weiss/Manfredi; and non-Western works such as a thirteenth-century Chinese vase and the Ryōanji dry garden in Kyoto Japan. Personal and engaging this book is for a wide audience of those practicing studying or with an interest in the creative fields from beginners to seasoned professionals. | Experiencing Art and Architecture Lessons on Looking

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The Latent World of Architecture Selected Essays

The Latent World of Architecture Selected Essays

This book features thirteen essays by the late architect philosopher and teacher Dalibor Vesely (1934–2015). Vesely was a leading authority on philosophical hermeneutics and phenomenology in relation to architecture worldwide and influenced a generation of thinkers teachers and practitioners. This collection presents the full range of his writing drawing primarily from the history of art and architecture as well as philosophy theology anthropology and ecology and spanning from early antiquity to modernism. It composes a multifaceted and globally relevant argument about the enduring cultural role of architecture and the significance of its history. The book edited and introduced by Vesely’s teaching partner at Cambridge Peter Carl and former student Alexandra Stara and with a foreword by David Leatherbarrow brings to light new and hard-to-access material for those familiar with Vesely’s thought and at the same time offers a compelling introduction to his writing and its profound relevance for architecture and culture today. | The Latent World of Architecture Selected Essays

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FABRIC[ated] Fabric Innovation and Material Responsibility in Architecture

FABRIC[ated] Fabric Innovation and Material Responsibility in Architecture

FABRIC[ated] examines fabric as a catalyst for innovation reflection change and transformation in architecture. This book explores the ways in which research and development of fabric can and historically has influenced and revolutionized architecture teaching and design. Responsive flexible impermanent fluid and adaptive—fabric interacts with and influences architecture offering innovative solutions and increased material responsibility. Foundation and theory chapters establish clear precedent and futures for fabric’s position in architectural discourse. The case study section examines 14 international projects through three different threads: Veiling Compression and Tension. Case studies include a diverse range of projects from the HiLo unit at Nest and CAST’s fabric formed concrete projects to a discussion of the impact of fabric on SO-IL and Kennedy Violich Architect’s professional work demonstrating new and fresh methods for addressing sustainability and social justice through the use of fabric in architecture. Through the work of the many authors of this book we see fabric as drape skin veil mold concept and inspiration. Fabric in its broadest definition is an important and innovative material in the development of socially conscious architecture. Offering readers pedagogical and practical models for international projects highlighting fabric’s use in architecture this book will appeal to the novice and the expert architecture students and practitioners alike. | FABRIC[ated] Fabric Innovation and Material Responsibility in Architecture

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How to Read Architecture An Introduction to Interpreting the Built Environment

How to Read Architecture An Introduction to Interpreting the Built Environment

How to Read Architecture is based on the fundamental premise that reading and interpreting architecture is something we already do and that close observation matters. This book enhances this skill so that given an unfamiliar building you will have the tools to understand it and to be inspired by it. Author Paulette Singley encourages you to misread closely read conventionally read and unconventionally read architecture to stimulate your creative process. This book explores three essential ways to help you understand architecture: reading a building from the outside-in from the inside-out and from the position of out-and-out or formal architecture. This book erodes boundaries between the frequently compartmentalized fields of interior design landscape design and building design with chapters exploring concepts of terroir scenography criticality atmosphere tectonics inhabitation type form and enclosure. Using examples and case studies that span a wide range of historical and global precedents Singley addresses the complex interaction among the ways a building engages its context addresses its performative exigencies and operates as an autonomous aesthetic object. Including over 300 images this book is an essential read for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of architecture with a global focus on the interpretation of buildings in their context. | How to Read Architecture An Introduction to Interpreting the Built Environment

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Critiquing the Modern in Architecture

Critiquing the Modern in Architecture

Written over four decades Critiquing the Modern in Architecture is a collection of essays exploring the ideological and metaphysical core of modern architecture. Author Jaimini Mehta moves architectural modernism from its primarily Eurocentric definition interrogating the subject from the perspective on a non-western thought-world. Mehta groups his essays under three key themes: Rethinking Modernity explores the ideological underpinnings of the modernity/modernism binary; The Idea of Architecture looks at a number of issues that constitute the timeless and the invariable aspects of architecture against which the prevalent modernist discourse can be critically evaluated; and On Praxis looks at three contemporary architects' work and the Vienna Secessionist movement between 1890 and 1918 to articulate a critique of the underpinnings of the modern movement. Providing a new view of the modern in architecture this book is critical reading for architectural theorists and scholars of modernism.

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Capsules: Typology of Other Architecture

Capsules: Typology of Other Architecture

This book investigates the architectural product design and urban typology of the capsule which beginning in the 1960s broadened the concept of the basic building blocks of architecture to include a minimal living unit called the capsule. Here it is presented with regard to the continuity of the development of the Modern Movement its revisionist criticism pioneering examples as well as contemporary examples and uses. The typology of the capsule allows us to consider this theme in terms of the architecture of resistance with the potential to search for an other architecture that is embedded in our contemporaneity (manifested in small dwellings composite structures and container units; shelters and mobile homes in nature and the urban environment; technology transfer in high-tech designs; devices additions and extensions etc. ). The concept of the capsule as a building element of architecture as well as a spatial element can therefore be regarded as having a generative potential for an architecture of personal space for the individual forcing us to reflect on our existing living and dwelling conditions. | Capsules: Typology of Other Architecture

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Routledge Research Companion to Landscape Architecture

Routledge Research Companion to Landscape Architecture

The Routledge Research Companion to Landscape Architecture considers landscape architecture’s increasingly important cultural aesthetic and ecological role. The volume reflects topical concerns in theoretical historical philosophical and practice-related research in landscape architecture – research that reflects our relationship with what has traditionally been called ‘nature’. It does so at a time when questions about the use of global resources and understanding the links between human and non-human worlds are more crucial than ever. The twenty-five chapters of this edited collection bring together significant positions in current landscape architecture research under five broad themes – History Sites and Heritage City and Nature Ethics and Sustainability Knowledge and Practice – supplemented with a discussion of landscape architecture education. Prominent as well as up-and-coming contributors from landscape architecture and adjacent fields including Tom Avermaete Peter Carl Gareth Doherty Ottmar Ette Matthew Gandy Christophe Girot Anne Whiston Spirn Ian H. Thompson and Jane Wolff seek to widen fuel and frame critical discussion in this growing area. A significant contribution to landscape architecture research this book will be beneficial not only to students and academics in landscape architecture but also to scholars in related fields such as history architecture and social studies.

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The Making of Mexican Modernist Architecture

The Making of Mexican Modernist Architecture

This book presents the making of Mexican Modernist architecture through five power structures – academic social status economic/political gender and postcolonial – and by interviews and analysis of 13 key Mexican architects. These include Luis Barragán José Villagrán García Juan O’Gorman Pedro Ramírez Vázquez Agustín Hernández Abraham Zabludovsky Carlos Mijares Ricardo Legorreta Juan José Díaz Infante Enrique Norten Alberto Kalach Javier Sordo Madaleno and Clara de Buen. Although the five power structures framed what was built the testimony of these Mexican architects helps us to recognize and discover subtleties and nuances. Their views thereby shed light on what contributed to making Mexican Modernist architecture so distinctive globally. Even if these architects were not always aware of the power structures their projects nonetheless supported discrimination marginalization and subjugation. In that sense the book also reveals the extent to which these power structures are still present today. The Making of Mexican Modernist Architecture’s uniqueness lies in uncovering the remarkable buildings that arose amid the five power structures while at the same time questioning their validity. It also voices the urgent need today for a new kind of architecture outside these boundaries. The book is essential reading for anyone studying Mexican and Latin American architecture.

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A History of Architecture and Trade

A History of Architecture and Trade

A History of Architecture and Trade draws together essays from an international roster of distinguished and emerging scholars to critically examine the important role architecture and urbanism played in the past five hundred years of global trading moving away from a conventional Western narrative. The book uses an alternative holistic lens through which to view the development of architecture and trade covering diverse topics such as the coercive urbanism of the Dutch East India Company; how slavery and capitalism shaped architecture and urbanization; and the importance of Islamic trading in the history of global trade. Each chapter examines a key site in history using architecture landscape and urban scale as evidence to show how trade has shaped them. It will appeal to scholars and researchers interested in areas such as world history economic and trade history and architectural history.

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Elemental Architecture Temperaments of Sustainability

Elemental Architecture Temperaments of Sustainability

Elemental Architecture presents a new and refreshing approach to sustainable architectural practice. Going beyond the standard performance-based and quantitative sustainable measures it incorporates a broader framework of considerations including the more poetic and noetic possibilities of environmental design. The book is structured around the ancient Greek and medieval alchemists’ system of the Five Temperaments: fire earth air water and ether. Phillip James Tabb examines how these elements produce both positive and negative environmental forces which have an impact on architectural design – from drinking water and fresh air to torrential floods and tornados. He shows how responding to or enhancing these forces can help us to create a more sustainable healthy and purposeful architecture. To illustrate this each chapter draws on seminal contemporary works of architecture from Peter Zumthor’s Bruder-Klaus Field Chapel to Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece at Fallingwater. These examples are accompanied by over a hundred high-quality illustrations. Expanding the discussion of sustainability to include phenomenological as well as qualitative considerations Elemental Architecture is ideal for students and researchers with an interest in sustainable architecture and architectural theory. | Elemental Architecture Temperaments of Sustainability

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Cantilever Architecture

Cantilever Architecture

Cantilever Architecture shows you how to integrate cantilever designs into your building from conception to help you create support-free structures without the need for columns or walls whether for balconies stairs to occupy the air rights of the lot next door or to build super tall buildings. The book includes 78 built case studies in 22 countries on 5 continents to illustrate various systems and their load carrying mechanisms at different scales. Includes an appendix on cantilevered furniture and more than 240 black and white images.

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Architecture and Resilience Interdisciplinary Dialogues

Architecture and Resilience Interdisciplinary Dialogues

Resilience will be a defining quality of the twenty-first century. As we witness the increasingly turbulent effects of climate change the multiple challenges of resource depletion and wage stagnation we know that our current ways of living are not resilient. This volume takes resilience as a transformative concept to ask where and what architecture might contribute. Bringing together cross-disciplinary perspectives from architecture urban design art geography building science and psychoanalysis it aims to open up multiple perspectives of research spatial strategies and projects that are testing how we can build local resilience in preparation for major societal challenges defining the position of architecture in urban resilience discourse. Chapter 16 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 3. 0 license. | Architecture and Resilience Interdisciplinary Dialogues

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Architecture from Public to Commons

Architecture from Public to Commons

This book provides an urgent framework and collective reflection on understanding ways to reconsider and recast architecture within ideas and politics of the commons and practices of commoning. Architecture from Public to Commons opens with Institutions the dialogue with the scales of the commons the limits of language for fluid identities the practices and challenges of architecture as an institution the design of objects with apparent shared value in Chile land protocols that explore alternatives to profit-seeking of property in New York and spirited conversations about revolting against architectural labor from Latin America. Continuing chapters explore under Territories the boundaries of Blackness across the Atlantic between Ethiopia and Atlanta the underground woven network with conflicting grounds of ipê wood between Brazil and the US water cycles in depleted territories in Chile indigenous women-led territorial and human rights struggles in Guatemala climate change accidental commons in California and the active search for racial justice between design and place in New Orleans. Contributions range from theoretical and historical essays to current case studies of on-the-ground practices in the US the Middle East Europe and Central and South America. Bringing together architects scholars artists historians sociologists curators and activists this book instils an urgent framework and renewed set of tools to pivot from architecture’s traditional public to a politicized commons. It will greatly interest students academics and researchers in architecture urban design architectural theory landscape architecture political economy and sociology.

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